Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 26 (1987) Supplement 26-3-1 pp. 217-218  |Previous Article| |Next Article|  |Table of Contents|
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Proc. 18th Int. Conf. Low Temperature Physics, Kyoto, 1987

Solution of the Kinetic Equation for Polarized Fermi Systems at All Temperatures

J. W. Jeon and W. J. Mullin

We have solved the kinetic equation for a dilute, polarized Fermi system for a range of temperatures from the degenerate limit to the Boltzmann case. The solution is possible because we have been able to reduce the collision integral to two-fold form. We calculate the spin diffusion constant and find the expected results for the degenerate and Boltzmann limits, improved results for the high polarization regime in which one spin species is degenerate and one Boltzmann, and values for all intermediate temperatures as well. Because of a relation between the collision time and the “spin rotation quality parameter”, µ, we give results for that quantity valid for all temperatures. A similar analysis should allow the computation of other transport coefficients.

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